bourgeois
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Its formless body accommodated slouching, lounging or lying down, selling freedom from both conventional posture and the bourgeois living room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
He went to secondary school in the wealthy bourgeois 16th arrondissement of Paris, where he said he felt an uncomfortable outsider, and later attended the elite ENA administration school.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
The scenic decor and costumes situate us in the late 19th century of Ibsen’s bourgeois Norway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
Germans ignored it out of shame; Jews, living precariously in exile, rejected it as too assimilated and bourgeois.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
At first he only used to be kidding when he called my stuff bourgeois, and I didn't give a damn--it was sort of funny, in fact.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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